As we begin the 2015 NFL season, it's once again time to remind our valued membership that we are truly a member-funded enterprise at Seahawks.NET.

We have the greatest Hawks board anywhere, running on the best equipment and connections possible. To enable us all to interact like we do, trouble-free, and without any annoying advertisements, it gets expensive. We simply cannot do it without you.

To those of you who have donated your hard-earned dollars to the board over the years, a heart-felt THANK YOU to all of you!

For those of you who are able to donate, we encourage you to do so by visiting here viewtopic.php?f=2&t=95718 to find valuable links to donate while you purchase online products you use everyday.

Also, if you are interested in making an outright cash donation, please follow the instructions here:

Your contributions go straight to paying the costs associated with providing top-notch bandwidth and handling all the wonderful data you contribute. If everyone helped us a just a little when they could, that's all it will take to keep us running strong! If you are in a unique position to help us in a bigger way, I'd like to sweeten the pot just a little....

I wish I had $500 to give, argghh! Someone is gonna step up, this is awesome.

I bet we could successfully run a full-scale, online fundraising auction with no variable overhead if in-kind donors would pay shipping on items they contribute, or, buyers would pay any actual shipping costs of items they win.

A simpler solution would be for members with the ability to give opening up their wallets and chipping in. This is a service that provides enjoyment for me. If you feel the same as I do about .NET, chipping in makes sense.

Scott, thank you for your generosity towards .NET.

Edit: clarified a shoddy sentence.

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Largent80 wrote:Can Mark donate to his own site?.....He is a Walter groupie.

I get the sentiment, I just want everyone to know that Mark (Rockhawk) does donate to his own site, to the tune of right about $300/month.

Wow!

I hope there is also some Return on Investment for him beyond the intangibles of what the site provides fans.

I'm in! Thanks for making it so easy to contribute.

I wrote this is the other topic, so here's just a cut and paste of that response...

Anguish wrote:$300/month is simply the cost for hardware (servers and such) and bandwidth.

If anyone realized what it takes to run a forum with the traffic that Seahawks.NET gets, they'd be very surprised that it has existed as long as it has without going the route of monetization. A true testament to those that have carried it over the years.

For all of the hand wringing that goes on about this little corner of the interwebz, this is one of few places that has existed for over a decade and a half for no other reason than to provide a voice for the 12th Man (yeah I wrote it) and the pride and joy of doing so.

As per recent discussions and comments received, we are making the necessary changes and adjustments to the system to better account for donation activity. We believe it is extremely important that we provide as accurate data as possible and are working to make that happen as we speak.

Once again, we are quite humbled by those who have come forward to contribute so far. Rest assured, we will make sure those folks are recognized accordingly.

You may have noticed that we have removed all remnants of the old system rankings for site-support from all member profiles in the last few days. This was done for a few reasons, but most importantly, to upgrade the logo and to re-align these legacy rankings with current events.

I assure you this is not a hostile gesture, it is merely something on the "honey-doo" list that has been finally taken care of.

If you have donated your hard-earned cash in the past year and have been affected by this change, please know that we are systematically adding the appropriate rank to your user profiles as we access the donation received for 2015. In most cases, we need to hear from you, so please...

OK, just donated and wish I could have donated more. Will try to next time around! This has been my go to site to find out the latest news outside of NFL.com and Seahawks.com and I appreciate all that everyone does to keep this site up and running.